2021 Crawfish Season: 'No One Knows what Normal is Any More'
By Victoria Dodge
Lafayette Daily Advertiser
At the peak of the 2020 crawfish season, Gov. John Bel Edwards had just issued a public health order closing all restaurants except for curbside takeout and delivery. The order caused restaurants to buy fewer crawfish — leading to an oversaturated crawfish market, a drop in prices and financial hurt to farmers.
"It’s crippling right now,” said Acadia Parish crawfish producer Gerald Frey in an LSU AgCenter release last year. “We’ve never faced anything like it. We can only sell 10% or 15% of what we catch."